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History of C Language

C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories to be used in the UNIX operating system. It is considered the "mother language" as it forms the basis for many modern languages and is often used to develop operating systems, drivers, and kernels. C is a procedural, structured, mid-level programming language well-suited for system programming.

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History of C Language

C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories to be used in the UNIX operating system. It is considered the "mother language" as it forms the basis for many modern languages and is often used to develop operating systems, drivers, and kernels. C is a procedural, structured, mid-level programming language well-suited for system programming.

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History of

C Language
C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis
Ritchie at bell laboratories of AT&T (American Telephone &
Telegraph), located in the U.S.A.

Initially, C language was developed to be used in UNIX


operating system.

C is the successor to the programming language B,

C programming is considered as the base for other programming


languages, that is why it is known as mother language.
It can be defined by the following ways:

1.Mother language

2.System programming language

3.Procedure-oriented programming language

4.Structured programming language

5.Mid-level programming language


1) C as a mother language

C language is considered as the mother language of all the modern programming languages
because most of the compilers, JVMs, Kernels, etc. are written in C language, and most
of the programming languages follow C syntax, for example, C++, Java, C#, etc.
It provides the core concepts like the array, strings, functions, file handling, etc. that are
being used in many languages like C++, Java, C#, etc.

2) C as a system programming language

A system programming language is used to create system software. C language is a


system programming language because it can be used to do low-level programming
(for example driver and kernel). It is generally used to create hardware devices, OS,
drivers, kernels, etc. For example, Linux kernel is written in
3) C as a procedural language
A procedure is known as a function, method, routine, subroutine, etc. A
procedural language specifies a series of steps for the program to solve
the problem.
A procedural language breaks the program into functions, data
structures, etc.
C is a procedural language. In C, variables and function prototypes must
be declared before being used.

4) C as a structured programming language

A structured programming language is a subset of the procedural


language. Structure means to break a program into parts or blocks so that
it may be easy to understand.
5) C as a mid-level programming language

C is considered as a middle-level language because it supports the feature of both low-level and
high-level languages. C language program is converted into assembly code, it supports pointer
arithmetic (low-level), but it is machine independent (a feature of high-level).

A Low-level language is specific to one machine, i.e., machine dependent. It is machine dependent,
fast to run. But it is not easy to understand.

A High-Level language is not specific to one machine, i.e., machine independent. It is easy to
understand.

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